[Enigmail] about creating a secure encryption

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 14:28:16 PDT 2008


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Barry Jefferson escribió:
> Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> | Having looked over the site in question, I can't find anything there
> | that would make me doubt GnuPG's defaults. What precisely is concerning
> | you?

> Just mainly it would have been nice to have the option in the program
> itself to set a higher encryption but i trust what you say when you say
> that it would take a nuclear powered, proton emitting computer capable
> of speed of light processing to crack keys well you said it in a different

  Right, while some encyption options are stronger than others, if the
weakest one takes 4.000 years to be broken... (I don't know how much
would it take, it is just an example).

  But gpg DO have higher encryption algorithms... it is capable of:
Public keys: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Encryption: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hashing: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224

NSA approved AES128 for Secret documents, and AES192 and 256 for Top
Secret information... (see wikipedia)

Best Regards
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